Well, I've lasted three days, but I now have questions!
We collected Darcy on Saturday, he is 19 weeks old.
He has settled in very well, he is great at night, he is sleeping in the kitchen and we don't hear a peep from him. He hasn't had any accidents on the floor either, I'm amazed!
I took him to the vet yesterday for a checkup. The vet couldn't work out exactly what injections he has already had, so felt it was best to start out as though he hasn't had any, although we were told he'd had virtually all of them, I felt I should trust the vets judgement though.
He also gave me worm tablets for him as I don't know when he was last wormed.
Literally up until the time he went to the vets he has eaten his meals with gusto, but since yesterday lunchtime he hasn't been interested in food. I managed to coax him with his lunch yesterday, his last meal yesterday he wasn't interested in, this morning I got a bit of food down him including his worm tablets, but just given him his lunch again and he hasn' touched it.
I am using the food the breeder gave us so it is what he is used to.
The other thing, I don't have anything to compare him to, but he seems such a placid, quiet dog. I expected a puppy to be scampering around all over the place, but he is quite subdued, that hasn't changed since we got home, he was like that from the beginning.
Is it just an adjustment period do you think? I get down on the floor and play with him, but if I sit on the floor, all he wants to do is sit on my lap rather than bound about. Perhaps this is normal, its just this is my first cavalier, I grew up with Golden retrievers, quite a different type of dog!!
Then if I am not paying him attention whilst I am doing something in the house, he just goes and lays on his bed. Now, I am not complaining, I don't want a wild little thing, but just wanted to check if this is normal or not.
OK, sorry for the long post, I just want to be the best possible mummy I can for him so I guess I am probably over worrying about everything.
Thanks for reading
We collected Darcy on Saturday, he is 19 weeks old.
He has settled in very well, he is great at night, he is sleeping in the kitchen and we don't hear a peep from him. He hasn't had any accidents on the floor either, I'm amazed!
I took him to the vet yesterday for a checkup. The vet couldn't work out exactly what injections he has already had, so felt it was best to start out as though he hasn't had any, although we were told he'd had virtually all of them, I felt I should trust the vets judgement though.
He also gave me worm tablets for him as I don't know when he was last wormed.
Literally up until the time he went to the vets he has eaten his meals with gusto, but since yesterday lunchtime he hasn't been interested in food. I managed to coax him with his lunch yesterday, his last meal yesterday he wasn't interested in, this morning I got a bit of food down him including his worm tablets, but just given him his lunch again and he hasn' touched it.
I am using the food the breeder gave us so it is what he is used to.
The other thing, I don't have anything to compare him to, but he seems such a placid, quiet dog. I expected a puppy to be scampering around all over the place, but he is quite subdued, that hasn't changed since we got home, he was like that from the beginning.
Is it just an adjustment period do you think? I get down on the floor and play with him, but if I sit on the floor, all he wants to do is sit on my lap rather than bound about. Perhaps this is normal, its just this is my first cavalier, I grew up with Golden retrievers, quite a different type of dog!!
Then if I am not paying him attention whilst I am doing something in the house, he just goes and lays on his bed. Now, I am not complaining, I don't want a wild little thing, but just wanted to check if this is normal or not.
OK, sorry for the long post, I just want to be the best possible mummy I can for him so I guess I am probably over worrying about everything.
Thanks for reading